Feminist Quotes - Page 18

• If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Giving, Language

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Kings, Writing, Men

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Men, Differences

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Feminists think difference in men and women] is all social. It is all about social cliches and pressures, that if you just leave boys and girls alone they're gonna grow up and be identical. They're gonna be the same in the way they look at life, the way they find things interesting. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Growing Up, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's not enough just to be in a panic. We don't have the luxury to be depressed about Trump. We have to look at issues like health care and the price of pharmaceuticals, the $15 minimum wage and things that actually make a huge difference in a lot of people's lives. That's feminist.

  Susan Sarandon

  Luxury, Differences, Issues

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

  Patti Smith

  Bags, Want, Humanist

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Fighting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and will soon be back to doing business with the United States.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it ­ - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, America, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than of what a feminist would look like. They assumed that if you could get a man, you wouldn't want anything else - what else could you possibly want? So that feminists who were talking about such things as equal pay must be doing so because they were unable to get a husband to support them, and therefore they must be ugl - this was the sort of train of thought. So because I looked different from the stereotype, then people would comment.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Men, Equal Pay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A huge amount of what feminists are fighting for would have major positive impact for men as well as women. Take the male suicide rate, for example. In part, the problem arises from the idea that men are tough and manly, that 'boys don't cry' and it's embarrassing for them to talk about their feelings. So men are less likely to reach out for help and support with mental health issues. But that gender stereotype, which exists alongside the converse notion that women are over-emotional, 'hysterical', or 'hormonal', is one feminists are fighting hard to debunk.

  Laura Bates

  Suicide, Fighting, Men

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• It's true that the gender pay gap is complicated. It's true that it is very slowly getting smaller. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It would have to be a pretty HUGE conspiracy for every reputable major news outlet to report on it annually if it was a massive feminist lie.

  Laura Bates

  Lying, Mean, Pay Gap

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• Turns out, this 'whatabboutery' is a classic way of silencing women when you don't like what they're fighting for. Don't panic, feminists are quite capable of fighting multiple battles at once!

  Laura Bates

  Fighting, Battle, Panic

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• There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

  June Diane Raphael

  Growing Up, Book, Awakening

  "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

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• As a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Believe, Men, Intellectual

  Playboy Interview, October 1965.

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• This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Expression, Church

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• I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

  Terry Crews

  Whole Life, Standing, Has Beens

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I've always considered myself a feminist, which is such a tough word for people. Some people immediately assume that you're angry or you hate men, which is obviously not true.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hate, Men, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• There's a lot of women that wanted no part of this feminist movement way back in the late sixties. The modern era can be traced back to then. See, that's the thing. They portray it as though something every woman in America is part of and believes in. And it's not.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, America, Movement

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.

  Dave Sim

  Believe, Civilization, Pillars

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's very dangerous to pretend to be open-minded when you're the exact opposite. I think feminists are only making it worse by blocking out all other viewpoints but their own, only reading their own propaganda and only associating with each other.

  Dave Sim

  Block, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Military, Writing, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When the cinematography school told me I would have no chance to get a job, I said, "It's irrelevant." My mom was a feminist in the '20s. She taught me to be on my own, to be independent, to do what I wanted to do. I did not believe it would be difficult. It was difficult. In '66, I almost starved for a year and a half, and the only way I did not starve was because I could not find a job in camera, but I found a job in editing.

  Babette Mangolte

  Mom, Believe, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The original feminists wanted two things. They wanted the right to vote, from which we could work to get more equality. And we have made progress. We did pass the anti-discrimination law, Title 7, Title 9, equality in the workplace, equality in education and in sports and in all these other areas. But enforcement is very hard. Changing stereotypes is very hard.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Sports, Progress, Vote

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Hillary Clinton is the one you would think would have some kind of political conscience - the good Methodist, the feminist, the crusader against political corruption. But apparently, she doesn't. For her, it's all about entitlement and power.

  Jeffrey St. Clair

  Thinking, Political, Kind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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